Just two cents, I believe Red Hat does support GFS2 on single server using lock_nolock, because we do SAN "snaps" of actively clustered GFS2 volumes (simple flatfiles, no databases) and present the snap luns to a media agent server to backup the data oob. RHN was okay with that configuration and we have been running it this way on GFS and GFS2 for 5-years without issue.

----- Original Message -----| Hi,| | You need to setup a simple cluster and a proper fencing mechanism . No | need to configure any services since you want to use GFS2 on both the | nodes.| Start the cluster, mount the gfs2 by /etc/fstab entry.| | Note: You can't use GFS2 without a Cluster setup.| | Dominic

Hi,

Well, technically you can use GFS2 without a cluster setup.I believe Red Hat doesn't support it, and the storage can't be mounted by more than a single computer (with "lock_nolock"locking protocol), but it can be done.